Need reviewers and comments: 6989472: Provide simple jdk identification information in the install image

Ulf Zibis Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de
Wed Dec 1 21:05:56 UTC 2010


Am 01.12.2010 17:43, schrieb Kelly O'Hair:
>
> On Dec 1, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Ulf Zibis wrote:
>
>> b: As we have a bin\client\Xusage.txt, we additionally could have:
>> - bin\usage.txt
>> - bin\client\XXusage.txt
>> - bin\Jrocket\XXusage.txt
>> - etc.
>> and maybe (without help text, but with well defined syntax):
>> - bin\options.txt
>> - bin\client\Xoptions.txt
>> - bin\client\XXoptions.txt
>> - etc.
>> or specify the syntax of the left column of the *usage.txt files.
>> The bin directory would be a good location, as it is well known for the java.exe.
>
> I have been trying to limit the scope of this as much as possible, this seems to be making it much
> more complicated than I want

> ... or I think anyone needs.

It's pretty difficult, to find out which -XX options are available. The docs in the internet are 
pretty incomplete, and the shipped docs package either, but maybe I'm one of the rare people outside 
of "anyone". ;-)

-Ulf






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